Thursday, July 18, 2013

Cookie Monday: Strawberries & Cream Cookies

I will talk about Cookie Monday in a second, but first I need to tell you about my marathon cooking day. I was in charge of providing this week's meal to a coworker out on medical leave, so I decided to go with a nice, safe ginormous dish of macaroni & cheese. I used this recipe since it's simple and she has young kids, and I subbed a special "mac & cheese" mix (cheddar, mozzarella, and American shredded) for all the other cheeses. I used whole milk, and I did not add the cayenne. I also made two little ramekins of it for myself and my gentleman. It was tasty. I hope they liked it too!

While I was baking that, I also decided to make a huge batch of cheesy hash brown casserole. Confession: I forgot the cheese. I have to add it to the top of the one I already cooked. It's an easy fix since I have most of it frozen in pans anyway so there's an opportunity to mix in cheese before it's baked, but I still feel stupid. Cheesy casserole, and I forget the cheese. Typical.

At the same time, I also made a small batch of Cake Batter Chocolate Chip Cookies because I thought that would be a festive little dessert for my coworker's family. How can I provide a dinner without including cookies? I kept half the batch to take to work to give to the nurses on my unit at work because it had been an especially difficult day and I wanted to apologize for my role in it. That worked out well.

SO let's rewind then to Monday, when I brought a bunch of cookies. It's a cheater recipe and I feel terrible about it, but I worked all weekend and I'm on-call and I'm tired so it was amazing that I managed to bring cookies at all. And these were LOVELY. If you like strawberry cake, you will like these cookies. They were delicious and sweet and summery. I actually will keep this recipe around because it's SO FAST and so easy to make, but they look so impressive. Yum!